In Nea Roda, Ethan Chandler traces the thread between treaties, pomegranates and refugees.
Read More
Forum
PODCAST – Episode 77: Material Cultures and Landscapes of Partition
In the fourth of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Ibrahim Ince and Ezgican Özdemir explore how the material world records Cyprus’s division.
Read More
PODCAST – Episode 76: The Cypriot Diaspora
In the third of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Panikos Panayi and Giorgios Charalambous trace how Cypriots have made lives for themselves across the island’s global diaspora.
Read More
PODCAST – Episode 75: The Shadow of the Partition
In the second of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Giorgios Charalambous and Ibahim Ince trace how identity intersects with partition on Cyprus.
Read More
PODCAST – Episode 74: History and Memory of Partition
In the first of a special series hosted by Alexandria Innes and Georgios Giannakopoulos, guests Andrekos Varnava and Beyza Kiziltepe trace how Cyprus’s division continues to live in the memory.
Read More
PODCAST – Episode 73: The Icy Gale of Death
Alan Mikhail speaks to Bryony Harris about the place of plague, quarantine and environmental history in Ottoman Egypt.
Read More
From Treaty to Tree: A Postcard from Nea Roda
In Nea Roda, Ethan Chandler traces the thread between treaties, pomegranates and refugees.
Read More
Plotting in a Time of Cholera
Gert Huskens on applying social network analysis to the history of sanitary internationalism.
Read More
PODCAST – Episode 72: The Universe of the In-Between
William Stroebel introduces Jonathan Conlin to the stories Lausanne tried to silence, that combined scripts and vocabularies in ways that challenged philologists’ obsession with linguistic purity and authorial intent.
Read More
PODCAST – Episode 71: Developing the Nation
Özge Baykan Calafato introduces Julia Secklehner and Enno Maessen to her work exploring the role of photography in developing modern Turkish citizenship.
Read More
PODCAST – Episode 70: Prophet of Reason
Peter Hill talks to Charles Ough about Dr Mikha’il Mishaqa, the Mount Lebanon-born polymath and US Vice Consul in Damascus whose long life encompassed some of the most important events of the tumultuous nineteenth-century in Syria and Egypt, culminating in the 1860 massacre of the Christians of Damascus in which Mishaqa narrowly escaped with his life.
Read More
PODCAST – Episode 69: Restoration Histories
Bariş Altan introduces Julia Secklehner to Cahide Tamer, a pioneer in architectural restoration and one of the first women architects in Turkey. Recently rescued, her archive fills a gap in the story of Istanbul’s historic landmarks, while her example of courage gives inspiration to today’s preservationists.
Read More
Milk Kinship Between Empires
Salih Yasun on how unexpected and intimate ties connect Kavala to Alexandria via Görükle.
Read More
PODCAST – Episode 68: Composing New Turkey
Long before the Turkish State Opera opened in 1949, Halide Edip Adıvar was mong those imagining what Turkish opera might sound like. In this conversation Jonathan Conlin asks Ici Vanwesenbeeck to explain how this remarkable polymath conceived of an opera that was neither “alla franca” nor “alla turca”.
Read More
PODCAST – Episode 67: Freehold of the World
Can Eyüp Çekiç and Enno Maessen revisit liberal internationalist David Davies’ 1919 proposal to establish the League of Nations in Constantinople, making that city the seat of a truly international order, an order that the League failed to establish in Geneva.
Read More
Alma’s Abdülhamid
Hadwig Kraeutler on an overlooked 1940 biography that presented the sultan as a key to past, present and future.
Read More
PODCAST – Episode 66: Teaching the Greater War
Jonathan Conlin invites Samuel Foster to explain the rationale behind his new module on “Europe in the Era of the Great War” and report on how students have engaged with imagology and uncomfortable analogies with their own times.
Read More
Teaching (While Deconstructing)
Bariş Çelik takes stock of his new undergraduate module on “The Making of the Modern Middle East”, which seeks to de-essentialise the region in students’ minds
Read More
The Gatsby of Fatih
A folly built by a Gatsbyesque “Bulgur King”, Bulgur Palas in Fatih has been rescued by the city of Istanbul. But, Hande Altinay argues, there’s a story here that’s still waiting to be told.
Read More
PODCAST – Episode 65: Nansen’s People
Ozan Ozavci talks with Ismee Tames about her ongoing research into stateless people after World War I, uncovering the communities of care that stateless individuals created to rebuild their lives.
Read More
A Tale of Two Towers
Gert Huskens tells the story of two water towers, one in Tangier, the other in Utrecht, that connect the histories of global entrepreneurship and sanitary internationalism.
Read More
PODCAST – Episode 64: Syria’s Choice
Eugene Rogan and Ozan Ozavci discuss the 1860 massacres in Damascus, the subsequent restoration of peace in Syria, and the insights this turbulent history may offer to Syrians navigating today’s challenges.
Read More
Από το Ouchy στο Auschwitz;
Ο Jonathan Conlin αξιολογεί τη μονογραφία της εκατονταετηρίδας του Hans-Lukas Kieser, η οποία αμφισβητεί ριζικά τις απόψεις της Λωζάνης ως «επιτυχία».
Read More
Postcard from Gemlik
Eftal Coşkun reports from a recent conference exploring legal aspects of the Lausanne Treaty.
Read More
The Foreigner in Piraeus
Anna Batzeli reveals how French forces brought cholera to Piraeus during their occupation of Greece, making the war twice as deadly.
Read More
PODCAST – Episode 63: My Own 1922
Anna Enepekidou looks back at a project that turned high schoolers into curators as well as students of history.
Read More
PODCAST – Episode 62: Quarantine Questions
Şahin Yeşilyurt introduces Giorgio Ennas to his research on the relationship between the late Ottoman Empire’s public health and fiscal regimes.
Read More
PODCAST – Episode 61: Zionism and Race
Laura Almagor talks to Ozan Ozavci about how revisiting a supposed “Founding Father of Zionism” might open new avenues into alternative pasts and futures for Israel-Palestine.
Read More
Back to School
Georgios Giannakopoulos returns to his alma mater in Athens, to help lead a workshop in which local high school students debated what Lausanne meant to them.
Read More
PODCAST – Episode 60: Inventing Ikbal
Nile Green walks Jonathan Conlin through Ikbal and Idries Shah’s unstable stable of aliases and identities.
Read More
Mogador
Ali Al Tuma visits the past and present of Essaouira, a city of timeless beauty that bears the scars of plague and cholera.
Read More
The Lausanne Project 